Where: United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 7.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Portland Stone Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• Pseudogigas zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: D. B. Blake. 1986. Some new post-Paleozoic sea stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata) and comments on taxon endurance. Journal of Paleontology 60(5):1103-1119 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59916: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 20.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
Pseudarchaster portlandicus Hess 1955 sea star |